Public health

Camden
and Islington Annual Public Health Report 2016/17

This year’s report looks in particular at investment in health care to prevent
illness, and especially at health care that will help the NHS save
money.

Finding ways to transform the health and care system and
make it sustainable for the future has never felt more pressing given the
current financial challenges facing the NHS and local government. Investing in preventing
illness is an important part of the
answer. Investing in and providing preventative care systemically and at sufficient
scale, are known to
have a demonstrable efffect on the health and wellbeing of residents, their
families and wider communities as well as reducing demand on the health and
care system. This report looks especially at those preventative interventions
which are shown to provide a return on money investment in the
short term.

In both Islington and Camden, local health and care partnerships and strategies
have a strong and clear commitment
to prevention, earlier intervention, and creating resilient individuals,
families and communities. Building on these strong local foundations, this
report simply makes the case that further investment in prevention is needed in
order to achieve a ‘radical upgrade’ in prevention and provide an improvement in
health outcomes and quality of life for residents.

A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is an ongoing process by which local
authorities, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and other public sector partners
jointly describe the current and future health and wellbeing needs of its local population
and identify priorities for action.

JSNA factsheets have been updated during 2017 using the latest data available,
and can be found here.